One book critic wrote: "Someday,people are going to wake up and realize that Woody Guthrie and his songs are a national treasure, like the Yellowstone or Yosemite parks."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

What I'd like to at last introduce to you is the exercise that we are going to be doing together.

最后我要向你们说明的,是大家要一起,做的练习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,

在这门课上，我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品，比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图，

有趣的课程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's like drinking whiskey for the first time. Burns your throat going down and that's how some people respond,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

I haven't said how I'm going to get those sorted lists, but imagine I had two sorted lists like that.

我还没有说明我怎么才能得到已排序的列表,但是想像一下我现在已经有,两个已排序好序的列表了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They may have the kids go around measuring doorways,windows, things like that or they are going to use something like money,actual cash."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

B=0 There's going to be some temperature where B is equal to zero. In that case, your gas is going to look awfully like an ideal gas.

在某个温度,这时，实际气体的表现，十分接近理想气体,高于这一温度它是正的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"It's a lost, because like the president is saying he is going to do something and he never do it, we are waiting for that."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

So what we would see, I'm going to completely fake this, is a program that operates like that.

所以我们会看到，我要完全掩盖这一点，就好像程序真的是那样执行的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Instead of going into a hole on the green, discs are thrown into a raised metal basket that looks a bit like a trash bin covered in chains.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

If you stop and be aware of your breath, it would reduce the likelihood of going to have the spiral feeling like that. -Thank you.

如果停下来，留意呼吸，就能避免有不断恶化,感觉的可能性，谢谢你。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"The local population in and around the cities will see that U.S.forces are in compliance and that we are working with Iraqi forces like we said we were going to,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

This limo driver told me this yesterday; he said it's going to cost him five hundred million pounds or something like that to do this.

那个司机昨天是这么跟我说的,他说他得花五亿英镑,才能买到

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"But if you look into the Mekong delta, for example in Vietnam, it has shown the 30-year cycle, but the phase and amplitude is going up and then going up like that."

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Ted Bundy, exactly, and that's like, before we get into the technical stuff like crazy-evil, and we're going to have to come to terms with why some people are like that.

没错,就是泰德·邦迪,这就像是在我们去了解,诸如邪恶事物的专业知识之前,我们会先想到,为什么人们会那样

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I think that,because it looks like the top four parties are going to be relatively close to one another, it is going to require a significant amount of political maneuvering, brokering deals, a lot of horse-trading behind closed doors to form a government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

Now that's going to be important when we talk about making human gene - making human proteins inside alternate hosts like bacteria, that they can't do all the things that your cells can do.

这一步骤在我们谈到,利用像细菌那样的宿主,来生成人类蛋白时非常重要,因为细菌并不具备人类细胞的全部功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We don't want to rob people of a constitutional right but - I kind of don't like saying this, but I'm going to do it, and that is - to err on the side of protection is the chance sometimes we have to take."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

However, there's one other variable that you want to be aware of and that is, he knows he ought to be going straight ahead like that, but he also knows that his right flank is open.

然而,还有其他变数是必须考虑到的,那就是,士兵知道他是向前直行的,但是,他同样知道他的右路是洞开的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's not going to be the kinetics that do it. We are starting to see positive effects like this in Helmand, where the Marines went in in July, in a place called Nawa, where the bazaar is open, as an example, and we see these classic counterinsurgency responses, where security exists,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Now that's pretty far fetched and not many people would say that a pop tart should be a controlled substance and regulated by government, but there are some very interesting chemical properties associated with foods like this that trigger things going on in the brain that affect us in a very big way.

这多少有点牵强,而且也没有很多人会认为,这种果酱馅饼应归为管制品,并受到政府监管,但有趣的是这种食品,确实有一些特别的化学特性,它会作用于大脑并会对我们产生大的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"When you put that all together it suggest that we are going to need something like 50 percent more, perhaps 100 percent more, food from our existing land and that is a very significant challenge and we believe we need to be thinking seriously about that right away,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

And then, having given the counter example That is to say, what I'm going to give is an example of an argument just like it, or at least an argument that seems to be just like it where we can pretty easily see that that argument doesn't work.

在给了这个反例之后,也就是说,我要给一个,与之相似的论证的例子,或者至少看起来,与之类似的一个论证,我们能够很容易地看到,那个论证是不正确的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now, we get to draw some lessons out of this thing, so everybody who's feeling a little bit shell shocked from having been doing algebra and calculus and drawing pictures and feeling like they've been cheated into taking a class that looks far too much like economics, calm down we're going to actually talk right now.

下面我们从中总结点经验出来,那些因为代数和微积分计算还有绘图,而感到十分不爽的同学,你们是不是感觉被我忽悠了,才会选这门一点都不像经济学的课啊,稍安勿躁,我们马上切入正题

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

that you feel like you're not going to even get in between and you're not going to become a mediator.

让你觉得你甚至都不想介入其中或扮演和事佬的角色。

It depends on 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Well with that I'd like to tell you about a couple of the projects going on in my lab.

我想通过介绍几个,我的实验室里进行的项目来说明。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So Milton is explaining to Charles Diodati that if you're going to become an epic poet, you have to start acting like one.

弥尔顿在这里像查尔斯，迪奥达蒂解释到,如果你想成为一名史诗诗人，你必须开始像一个史诗诗人那样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I believe that these are the foundational moments of theorizing and that if you're going to teach anything like a survey, you've got to derive the rest of it from whatever the moment I happen to subscribe to might be."

我相信这些都对建立理论非常重要,如果你想教概论之类的东西，那么其它的部分都得是我赞同的才行“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But, in February of 1871 there are elections and the provinces, particularly the conservative, western provinces like Brittany return this extremely monarchist dominated National Assembly that is going to determine the future of France.

在一八七一年二月,举行了一系列选举,并且那些守旧城市,像西部城市布列塔尼,那里的国民大会,又重新被极端君主专制主义者们掌握,而这将决定法国的未来

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Oddly, it's much more like going to a jazz concert where the audience is sitting maybe around tables or something like that and encouraging and interacting with the performers but again in those cultures no notation.

非常奇怪,这很像爵士音乐会的场面,观众们为鼓励演奏者而围坐在桌边,或围着别的什么的,并和演奏者积极互动,而这些文化中都没有记谱法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选